Lay of the Land, is an exhibition of imagery inspired by the landscape of Australia and beyond, featuring recent photographs by Kim Armstrong, Yan Zhang and paintings by Jennifer Gabbay. The lay of the land, refers to the nature or topography of the surrounding landscape and each artist has captured a fragment of the diversity of Australia's terrain.

All three artists have been influenced and inspired by local and familiar landscapes found within the blue mountains and the plains of Penrith and Hawkesbury as well as other popular sites found within NSW.

The painter Jennifer Gabbay is inspired by both seen and unseen imagery, reconfiguring nature via imagination, by dissolving forms of fragmenting shapes and colours that she has found within it. Gabbay is interested in illuminating the surface of her paintings with the energy of vibratory colours and her works can be considered to be viewing nature at a molecular scale, abstracting its form.

Yan Zhang and Kim Armstrong in contrast have approached nature from a distance, capturing vistas of mountain ranges, cascading waterfalls and coastlines which highlight the sublime and majesty of nature. Their photographs bring to mind the works of landscape painters from the Romantic era, as well as early nineteenth century photographers, who created a market for the picturesque view.